Shade.



J. H. WARD.

SHADE.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 21, 1911.

Patented Feb. 20, 1912.

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JOHN H. WARD, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

SHADE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 21, 1911.

Patented Feb. 20, 1912.

Serial No. 667,139.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. WARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the count-y of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shades, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to shades adapted for a gas or similar illuminating fixture having a pillar or other upright part on which the shade may be conveniently supported when in use.

My object is so to construct such a shade that it will be not only inexpensive to manufacture and peculiarly strong and durable but fully effective in obscuring the light both laterally and downwardly and readily adapted to be shifted to various positions around the light.

The accompanying drawing fully illustrates my invention wherein,

Figure 1 is a side elevation, showing the shade mounted on a gas fixture; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the shade; and, Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a modification.

In said drawings, a is an ordinary gas fixture having the usual pillar b carrying the burner tip 0, the said pillar affording the part of the fixture on which the improved shade is mounted so as to be capable of being turned into different positions.

The improved shade includes an upright tubular post (Z, a horizontal wall 6 and an upright wall f, all preferably formed of sheet metal and constructed and assembled as follows: The wall 6 is a sector-shaped part having its lateral edges 9 folded over to stiffen said wall and also having, at its reduced end, an extension 72., to which extension the post (Z has its lower end (in the present instance) soldered. The wall f is part cylindrical, and has its two side edges 2' and its upper edge y folded over to stiffen said wall. The walls 6 and j may be stamped out of one piece of metal; or the lower edge is of the wall f may be soldered to the arc-shaped edge Z of the wall 6. \Vhen arranged on the fixture as shown in Fig. 1, the post 03 being slipped over the pillar b,

the light will be obscured horizontally by the wall f and downwardly by the wall 6; the device can of course be turned to any position, as illustrated by dotted lines in Fig. 1.

It will be observed that the device is quite strong and durable due to the peculiar formation and arrangement of the parts 6 and fthe former being flat and sector-shaped and the latter part-cylindrical, and the two merging and united together along a curved line. The stability of the device when in working position is also increased, particularly because of the employment of a sheetlike piece (wall 6) connect-ing the post and wall f in place of wires or the like.

In the modification (Fig. 3) the partcylindrical post m is produced by bending an elongated extension of the horizontal wall a into part cylindrical form and then upturning the same and forming the fold 0, bringing the post m into register with the hole p in wall a with which it must coincide. This construction has the advantage of stifiening the metal adjacent to the post and at the same time affording a post which may be expanded or contracted to fit any pillar to which it may be applied.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A shade attachment for a light fixture consisting of a substantially sector-shaped horizontal wall, a hollow post rising from one face of said wall at one end thereof and a vertical wall rising from the other end of said horizontal wall, substantially as described.

2. A shade attachment for a light fixture consisting of a substantially sector-shaped horizontal wall, a hollow post rising from one face of said wall at one end thereof and a vertical wall rising from the other end of said horizontal wall, said vertical wall being arc-shaped in plan, substantially as described.

3. A shade attachment for a light fixture consisting of a substantially sector-shaped horizontal wall, a hollow post rising from one face of said Wall at one end thereof and Intestimony whereof I afiix my signature a vertical Wall rlsing from the other end of 1n presence of two wltnesses. sald hor1zontal Wall, sald vertical Wall bemg arc-shaped in plan, and the horizontal wall JOHN H. \VARD. having its side edges and the vertical Wall Vitnesses:

its side and top edges folded over so as to J. LEWIS LEONARD,

stiffen said Walls, substantially as described. WM. D. BELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,017 ,934, granted February 20,

1912, upon the application of John H. Ward, of Paterson, New Jersey, for an improvement in Shades, an error appears requiring correction as follows: Page 2,

line 12, name of first-mentionedwitness, for J. Lewis Leonard read John W Steward; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of thecase in the Patent Otfice.

Signed and sealed this 19th day of March, A. D., 1912.

[SEAL] c. c. BILLINGS,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

